Hi,
I'm working with eclipse 3.7 since about a month now but I switched to eclipse 4 due to the event system. But I can't really start since my application model doesn't work. It's probably a stupid mistake but since I already wasted a couple of hours and a lot more brain cells on it, I'll try it here.

This is what I did (about a million times):
start eclipse 4.2 (it's not SR1, but I will come to that issue later) with "E4 CSS Spy" and "Eclipse e4 Tools" installed. Next I choose File - new - other - Eclipse 4 - Eclipse 4 Application Project. I leave everything as it is (except for the name) and I don't generate an activator. Then I select the product and launch an Eclipse application. I close the application, open the Application.e4xmi file and change the size of the trimmed window, save, restart the application with "launch an eclipse application" and nothing changed.
I know, my description is probably far to detailed, but it's so simple that I can't imagine doing a mistake somewhere.

Why I didn't use 4.2 SR1:
When I start Eclipse there pop up two error messages:
"egit could not detect where git is installed"
and
"The HOME variable was not set".
As far as I can tell, I don't need Git since its for some reposetory stuff. And if I'm wrong, if it must be installed, why doesn't it come with Eclipse?

Am 07.11.12 13:56, schrieb Aljoscha Steffens:
> Hi,
> I'm working with eclipse 3.7 since about a month now but I switched to
> eclipse 4 due to the event system. But I can't really start since my
> application model doesn't work. It's probably a stupid mistake but since
> I already wasted a couple of hours and a lot more brain cells on it,
> I'll try it here.
>
> This is what I did (about a million times):
> start eclipse 4.2 (it's not SR1, but I will come to that issue later)
> with "E4 CSS Spy" and "Eclipse e4 Tools" installed. Next I choose File -
> new - other - Eclipse 4 - Eclipse 4 Application Project. I leave
> everything as it is (except for the name) and I don't generate an
> activator. Then I select the product and launch an Eclipse application.
> I close the application, open the Application.e4xmi file and change the
> size of the trimmed window, save, restart the application with "launch
> an eclipse application" and nothing changed.
> I know, my description is probably far to detailed, but it's so simple
> that I can't imagine doing a mistake somewhere.
>

The problem is that your 2nd start will use the restored state from the
previous session! You can either:
a) pass -clearPersistedState
b) check the clear workspace flag